Gate for irrigating-ditches



W. FREU DENBERG.

GATE FOR IRRIGATINGIDITCHES. APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. 1920.

- Patented May 17, 1921.

UNITE srr WILLIAM: FREUDENBEBG, QF ENTERPRISE, OREGON.

GATE FOR IBEIGATING-DITCHES Specification of Letters Patent. Patented lliay 17, 1%21. V

Application filed May 20, 1320. Serial No. 383,007.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, /VILLIAM FREUDEN- BERG, a citizen of the UnitedStates of America, and resident of Enterprise,in the county of lVallowa and fitate of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates for Irrigating-Ditches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to gates for irrigating ditches and has for its object the provision of novel means adapted to be installed in ditches for measuring the flow of water therethrough and for controlling the said water, the said device being capable of installation and removal expeditiously.

Furthermore, it is an object of the invention to provide a gate which will be effective in diverting water so that it may be directed to lateral passages or ditches, and the device will prove comparatively inexpensive to produce and maintain.

A still further object of this invention is to produce a gate for irrigating ditches having a splash board which may be held in inoperative position while the gate is being transported, the said splash board being capable of swinging from a vertical to a downwardly inclined position so that the impact of the flowing water or disturbing influence which may affect the banks of the ditch or the bottom thereof will be obviated.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fuliy set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, ref

erence will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and inwhich Figure 1 illustrates a view in elevation of a gateembodying the invention;

Fig. 2 illustrates a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 illustrates a top plan view of the gate;

Fig. 4 illustrates a perspective view of the gate employed in connection with the body portion of the device;

Fig. 5 illustrates a perspective view of a slidable door, and

Fig. 6 illustrates a perspective view of a splash board.

In these drawings ,5 denotes a plate preferably of metal having an opening 6 for the The opening has marginal flanges on each side of the opening preferably'formed by securing metallic strips 9 and 10 to the said plate 5 which project below the plate and form anchoring spurs 15 to prevent dislodgment of the gate when in'use, and the edges of the strips project within the area of the opening, and they are spaced apart to form a clearance for the door.

Thereare also strips 11 and 12 secured to the plate at the bottom of the opening which are spaced apart to form a seat for the lower end of the door when it is closed, and the said door has a series of notches 13 in one edge which are adapted to receive a rodor strip of material (not shown), which will support the door in an elevated position, it being understood that the rod would rest on the upper edge of the plate 5 when the door is elevated.

The upper edge or margin of the plate 5 is shaped to embrace the supporting rod 14 which is of such length as to extend beyond the sides of the ditch and to lie on the surface of the bank to support the gate when in operative position, and to coact with the spurs for preventing dislodgment of the gate.

A handle 17 preferably of the configura tion shown is formed by a loop connecting the strips v9 and 10 and said looped portion may be integral with the strips 9 and 10 so that by this means the device can be handled.

The strips 9 and 10 are offset with relation to the plate as shown at 18 to form a way in which the pintle 1.9 of thesplash gate or board 20 may slide, it being shown in the drawing that the said splash board has a hook 21 at its outer end which is intended to embrace the supporting bar 14: when the splash board is held in inoperative position, movement of the pintle 19 in the offset portions of the strips affording adjustment which will permit the hook to be place into engagement with the rod and then the splash board may be allowed to slide downwardly until the hook engages the said rod.

When

the splash board is to be removed from'the rod, it is lifted slightly so that the hook disengages the rod, and then it may be swung outwardly to different positions, one of which is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, so that water flowing through the gate will strike the splash board and be prevented from attaining the whirling motion which might impair the wall of the water-way to which he gate is applied.

By inserting the gate in the ditch, the flow of water in the ditch may be obstructed, thus causing the water to be diverted to lateral passages for the water, and a certain amount may be permitted to pass through the opening in the gate by raising the door a predetermined degree and by this means, the flow of water through the gate could be measured or determined if the capacity of the opening created by opening of the door were known.

I claim:

1. In a gate for irrigating ditches, a plate having an opening therein, means for guarding the opening, a splash board, means for pivotally connecting the splash board to the plate whereby it is swingingly mounted with relation to the opening, and means for holding the splash board in inoperative relation to the plate.

2. In a gate for irrigating ditches, a plate having an opening therein, adjustable means for guarding the opening, a splash board oscillatably and slidably mounted on the plate, the said splash board having a hook at its outer end adapted to embrace a station ary portion of the gate for holding the splash board in inoperative position.

WILLIAM FREUDENBERG 

